GPED Forum

Each fall and spring the GPED hosts influential economists and policy experts to present seminars on their important research or development activities. The GPED Forum provides students the opportunity to attend an interesting seminar, learn from the experiences of our speakers, and network. The GPED Forum is typically held 2-3 times a semester. The seminar lasts for about an hour and takes place on campus during a weekday afternoon. A group of students usually takes the speaker out for drinks, pizza, and conversation after the seminar, and individual students can meet one-on-one with our visitors during the day. Forum seminars are open to all GPED alumni and members of the Vanderbilt community.

Fall 2018

Wednesday, August 22, 2018Garland Hall 101, 4:00-5:20 pmAmbassador DjaniPermanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations"Global Change and the Role of the Multilateral System"

Development Economist & Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

"Researching Social Cohesion in Kyrgyzstan: Lessons from Two Impact Evaluation Studies”

Wednesday, October 10, 2019

Calhoun Hall 109, 12:30-1:30 pm

Khaliungoo Ganbat

Exernal Relations Manager at Centerra Gold Inc.

“Making Community Development Agreements in the Mining Sector”

Thursday, October 11, 2018Garland Hall 101, 4:00-5:20 pm

Wondimu ManalewEconomics PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at Indiana University Purdue University (IUPUI)"Does Education Reduce Child Marriage? Evidence from an Education Policy Reform in Ethiopia"

Thursday, November 8, 2018Garland Hall 101, 4:30-5:50 pm

Presentation of research conducted by GPED students in ECON 7930 Field Experience in Economic Development, May 2018, Paraguay

Spring 2018

Thursday, February 15, 2018Garland Hall 101,4:00-5:20 pmCláudio de Moura CastroChair, the Advisory Council of Pitágoras College and Director, Faculdade da Saúde e Ecologia Humana"Does the profit motive hurt the quality of higher education?"

Thursday, October 26, 2017Garland Hall 101, 4:00-5:20 pmDante MossiSenior Operations officer for Energy Global Practice for West and Central Africa Region, The World Bank"Poverty and Paraguay: What works, and why"

Thursday, September 21, 2017 Garland Hall 101,4:00-5:20 pmJeff NugentProfessor of Economics and Business, University of Southern California"Business Associations in Developing Countries: What Can They Do, How and When?"